Electric bath.



H. AUB.

ELECTRIC BATH.

APPLIOATION FILED rmml, 1914'.

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HERMANN AUB, 0F MUNICH, GERMANY.

ELECTRIC BATH.

To all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, HERMANN AUB, citizen of Bavaria, residing at Ismaningerstrasse 77, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Baths; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to baths into which electrodes are introduced for the electrical treatment of the posterior or genital partel of the body. For such treatment it has heretofore been usual to employ plates or rollers,

'directly applied to the body, but cataphoretic effects render it impossible to apply such treatment for any considerable length of time. In large baths, for the whole body, diaphragms have been used for directing the current to the urogenital system, but in this Vcase a large part of the current is dissipated in the water, and no concentrated local effect is obtained.

The object of my invention is to obviate these disadvantages and enable protracted electric treatment to be applied without injurious effect and without unduly tiring the patient.

The improved bath itself may be used alternatively merely as an ordinary bidet, in which case the insertion of electrodes is dispensed with.

An embodiment of the invention is shown in the acompanying drawing, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of the bath, and F ig. 2 a vertical section thereof. Fig. 3 shows the bath fitted up with accesso-ries for use.

rlhe bath g is made of electrically non-r Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Speccaton of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 21, 1914.

Patented May 5, 1914.

Serial No. 820,116.

decomposed by the action of water and electric current. Its shape, in plan, may vary according to requirements, but is in general circular, or approximately so. The vrim 1' of the wall curves inward and overhangs the interior of the bath, as shown at in Fig. 2, and is provided with slots a; for the insertion of electrodes Z). The bath is constricted at the bottom, to form a shoulder or abutment Z, and the electrodes b are engaged between this abutment Z and other abutments c rising from the bottom of thf bath.

As shown in the drawing the rim r has depressions, at the sides, to conform to the shape of the body, but it may be straight. The inward curve of the rim affords a smooth seating surface in no way liable to injure the body, and in its general shape and dimensions the bath so conforms to the body that the quantity of water is reduced to a minimum, and the electric current is thus 'locally concentrated and utilized in the most eflicient manner.

1What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is In a bath ofelectrically non-conductive material, the combination of a wall having a rim overhanging the interior, inwardly curved to form a smooth seating surface, and having slots for the insertion of electrodes, and abutments in said bath, adapted Ato engage electrodes inserted through said slots.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HERMANN AUB.

Vitnesses v ALBERT ARNOLD, CARL OFENsTnIN.

Washington, D. C. 

